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DIRECTIVES
REGARDING THE PROVISION OF AID
TO THE CITY OF GROZNY AND ITS DISTRICT
December 5 [1918]
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To the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs

In view of the extremely critical financial situation of the city of Grozny and its district, you are hereby requested to render full cooperation to the Grozny Soviet, clarifying with its representative, comrade Pinson,¹ the degree of financial need of the aforementioned Soviet, and to transmit the necessary sum through the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caspian-Caucasian Southern Front² to its destination.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

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To the People's Commissariat of Food Supply

I request that you render assistance to the representative of the Grozny Central Soviet, comrade B. D. Pinson, in the issuance of manufactured goods and the requisite quantity of glass for the needs of the sixty-thousand population of the Grozny district.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

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To the Main Committee of Paper [Industry]

You are hereby requested to issue urgently to the representative of the Grozny Central Soviet, comrade B. D. Pinson, the requisite quantity of paper for the needs of Soviet newspapers, commissariats, and schools of the aforementioned district.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Printed from a typewritten copy

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¹ On December 5, 1918, V. I. Lenin holds a meeting with the representative of the Grozny Central Soviet B. D. Pinson, listens to his report on the situation in Grozny, surrounded by troops of interventionists and White Cossacks, and signs the directives to the commissariats of internal affairs and food supply and to the Main Committee of Paper Industry.
² Reference is made to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caspian-Caucasian division of the Southern Front. On November 28, 1918, the Administration of this division sent the following letter to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. I. Lenin concerning B. D. Pinson: "Dear comrade. I am sending to you comrade Pinson, a colleague from the summer expedition to the North Caucasus for grain, and who, in consequence of recent events, spent the entire three-month siege in Grozny and its surroundings. He is a delegate of the Grozny Central Soviet for the purpose of obtaining funds, medicines, manufactured goods, and so forth for this, important to us, region. I request that you render comrade every assistance. All means can be directed through the Revolutionary Military Council. With comradely greetings, A. Shlyapnikov."